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SONNETS 



BY 

ROBERT BROWNING 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 

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All rights reser-ved 



SONNETS 



BY 

ROBERT BROWNING 



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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 

All rights reserved 






Copyright, 1914, 
By the MACMILLAN COMPANY. 

Published January, iqij. 



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J. S. Gushing Co. — Berwick & Smith Co. 

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. 



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JAN 27 1914 

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SONNET 



[This Sonnet by Robert Browning ad- 
dressed to the memory of his parents — 
from a MS. in the handwriting of Miss 
Browning — was among the papers dis- 
posed of at the Browning Sale in May 
1913. — Editor.] 

Words I might else have been compelled 

to say 
In silence to my heart, — great love, great 

praise 
Of thee, my Father — have been freely said 
By those whom none shall blame; and 

while thy life 
Endures, a beauteous thing, in their record 
I may desist ; but thou art not alone : 



They lay beside thee whom thou lovest 

most ; 
Soft sanctuary-tapers of thy house, 
Close-curtained when the Priest came forth, 

— on these 
Let peace be, peace on thee, my Mother 

too! 
The child that never knew you, and the 

Girl 
In whom your gentle souls seemed born 

again 
To bless us longer. Peace like yours be 

mine 
Till the same quiet home receives us all. 

Robert Browning. 



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